The Economist / Americas

1. Mark Carney hopes to redirect Canada’s economy around Donald Trump

   His Europe trip was one part of a bigger plan

2. Jamaica’s churches have become climate activists

   They are powerful, conservative, and green

3. Brazil’s gangsters: less murder, more money

   Crime is softer, but it affects more Brazilians than ever before

4. Women lead brutal lives in Colombia’s illegal gold-mining regions

   They survive on what men discard, and are exploited by them

5. When the defenders of democracy turn their backs on it instead

   Brazil’s top court saved the country’s young democracy. Now it is strangling it through corruption

6. Javier Milei’s liberal experiment is struggling

   In an interview with The Economist, Argentina’s president is unyielding

7. Javier Milei’s outburst over the Falklands is a mark of weakness

   In an interview with The Economist, Argentina’s president stirs up tensions with Britain 

8. A prawn superpower rises

   Ecuador’s farmers have embraced technology to great effect

9. The presidential candidate Brazil’s authorities tried to ban

   Renan Santos, a fast-talking liberal with a rock band, models himself after Argentina’s Javier Milei

10. America has laid claim to a fifth of Venezuela’s oil

    The deal could give both countries reason to forestall a democratic transition

11. The problem with the world’s oldest mummies

    The burial rituals of a culture that thrived 7,000 years ago have ramifications today

12. Donald Trump’s military expansion in Panama makes little sense

    It is warping the neutrality which protects the country’s canal

13. The costs of defying Donald Trump are mounting for Canada

    But the waiting game is Mark Carney’s only move

14. The South American hipster language cooler than Spanish

    Why Guaraní has become trendy in Paraguay

15. Polo’s lessons for Argentina

    Why the South American country dominates the sport

16. The big democracy where lawmakers are mightier than the executive

    A too-weak president can be a threat to democracy, too

17. Brazil is at last managing to build its own warships

    That is sensible in a newly volatile hemisphere

18. Inside Venezuela’s high-stakes political negotiations

    Maria Corina Machado’s absence does not mean they will fail

19. A big earthquake reveals two very different Colombias

    The new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, took office three days before it struck

20. Brazil election poll tracker: Who will be the next president?

    Lula hopes to secure a fourth term by beating Flávio Bolsonaro